How to format your references using the Language Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Language Policy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Brauman, J. I. (2008). Chemistry. Not so simple. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5860), 168.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, J.-Y., & Jameson, S. C. (2012). Immunology. Remembering to be tolerant. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6069), 667–668.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acuna, D. E., Allesina, S., & Kording, K. P. (2012). Future impact: Predicting scientific success. Nature, 489(7415), 201–202.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Huang, X., Chen, J., Lu, Z., Yu, H., Yan, Q., & Hng, H. H. (2013). Carbon inverse opal entrapped with electrode active nanoparticles as high-performance anode for lithium-ion batteries. Scientific reports, 3, 2317.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Karamalidis, A. K., & Dzombak, D. A. (2010). Surface Complexation Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hart-Davis, G. (2010). Beginning Microsoft Office 2010. (S. Anglin, D. Pundick, C. Andres, M. Beckner, E. Buckingham, G. Cornell, et al., Eds.). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Michl, S. (2015). The Epistemics of “Personalized Medicine”. Rebranding Pharmacogenetics. In T. Fischer, M. Langanke, P. Marschall, & S. Michl (Eds.), Individualized Medicine: Ethical, Economical and Historical Perspectives (pp. 61–78). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Language Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, July 16). Improved Lab-Grown Burger Will Be Sold On The Mainstream Market. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2001). U.S. Infrastructure: Funding Trends and Federal Agencies’ Investment Estimates (No. GAO-01-986T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Theodore, J. A. (2014). A Framework for Comparative Analysis of Gene Expressions and Mutations Linked to Cancer (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Furey, J. (2017, August 20). The Saltshaker Trick. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Brauman 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Brauman 2008; Lee and Jameson 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lee and Jameson 2012)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Language Policy
Abbreviation	Lang. Policy
ISSN (print)	1568-4555
ISSN (online)	1573-1863
Scope	Language and Linguistics Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science